die是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为vi. 死, 死亡; (草木) 枯萎, 凋谢; 渴望,这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢,今天小编就带您了解一下。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I was, besides, reassured as to our fate; and it seemed evident that our hosts would not let us die of want.
-- "You are never out of temper, always calm; you would return thanks before grace, and die of hunger rather than complain!"
-- "Master," he said, "I shall die if I do not taste a little of this bread-fruit pie."
-- Thus they die in the open air; and at the end of ten days they are in a forward state of decomposition.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A man can live by accident, and die by accident.
-- We'd rather die than give up our little self-righteous self-opinionated self-will."
-- He'll have to die soon, when he's made every possible improvement, and there will be nothing more to improve.
-- The little smile began to die out of Gerald's eyes, and he said, looking with a cool stare at Birkin:"So you really think things are very bad?"
-- Unless she could break out, she must die most fearfully, walled up in horror.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The red cow didn't die by chance; and your rheumatis m can hardly be reckoned among providential visitations!
-- Then she began describing with hysterical emotion the effect it produced on her to see black; and started, and trembled, and, at last, fell a weeping and when I asked what was the matter, answered, she didn't know; but she felt so afraid of dying!I imagined her as little likely to die as myself.
-- I hope he will not die before I do!
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